Nadia Lockyer hospitalized with fractured vertebra

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer’s wife, Nadia Lockyer, is flat on her back with a fractured vertebra after a fall at her Hayward home.

“I broke my back on Saturday,’’ she wrote on her Facebook page Monday.

“Can’t believe it myself,’’ she wrote. “Thought the stars were going to finally let up on me.’’

Lockyer has been in recovery for meth addiction since resigning from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors two years ago following a bizarre and widely publicized drug and sex scandal. She and her husband, who will be termed out as treasurer at the end of the year, are dividing their time between Long Beach and the Bay Area.

In a second Facebook post Monday from the Kaiser Permanente Irvine Medical Center, Nadia Lockyer wrote that the accident happened at her Hayward home when she tripped “on a narrow spiral staircase going from our balcony to grass below.’’

“They say it’s a compression fracture of the thoracic 7,” a vertebra midway down the spinal column. “I was at new San Leandro hospital and taken to So Cal for care. I am terribly scared and in tremendous pain but your kind words are keeping me strong in spirit. Thank you.’’

She wrote that she was “texting on my broken back looking at another Kaiser ceiling.’’